There Are No Coincidences? -- Part Three of Three

In today’s media-saturated, information-overloaded, palm-pilot driven world, there are few places you can hide. That includes even gyms, even early in the morning, even when you’d just trying to unfreeze a balky back.

But when I heard an ad this morning playing softly on the speaker system, I was glad for the interruption. It was produced by Project Rachel, one of the oldest organizations dedicated to ministering to post-aborted women. Right from the get-go, the listener is told this is about women who have had an abortion.

I do not remember specific language, except for what was (for me)the most telling line: the women narrating the short ad said, “Everyone said it would be easy.” The ad ended with an 800 number.

That ad was immediately followed by an ad for Powerball or Lotto, or some similar lottery. Two guys are talking and the come-on is that the one guy tells the other you can’t just look at a $20 and think it into a million dollars. (But you can buy a lottery ticket and win $1,000,000!)
What immediately struck me was the first part of the ad: thinking doesn’t make it so. True--just as thinking “it” (abortion) “would be easy” won’t make it so. It won’t silence the pain or still the hurt.

When I mentioned this to a fellow staff member, she told me the ad was part of a four-week radio ad campaign, sponsored by Project Rachel, offering “offering post-abortion healing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.”

You can hear the ad I heard—and others—by going to http://www.hopeafterabortion.com/listen.cfm.

This would be well worth your time. As Deirdre McQuade, spokeswoman on abortion-related issues for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat, says, "Countless women and men suffer in silent isolation for years after abortion. Project Rachel offers reconciliation and guides them on the journey to healing."

If you have a comment or a question, please write Dave Andrusko at daveandrusko@hotmail.com

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